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Early Modern Germany in The Encyclopedia of German History. Part 3: Politics and Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Thomas A. Brady Jr
Thomas A. Brady Jr
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Central European History , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 229 - 256
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1998

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1. Krieger, 11.

2. Ibid., 38–39.

3. Brunner, Otto, Land und Herrschaft (1939);Google Scholar in English as Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria, trans. Kaminsky, Howard and Van Horn Melton, James (Philadelphia, 1992).Google Scholar See my evaluation in “Whose Land? Whose Lordship? The New Translation of Otto Brunner,” Central European History 29 (1996): 227–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4. Krieger, 57.

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7. Ibid., 7.

8. Ibid., 14.

9. Ibid., 49.

10. Quoted by Schubert, 52.

11. Ibid., 61.

12. Quoted by Schubert, 77.

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14. Ibid., 106.

15. It complements his more general introduction to late medieval German history, Einführung in die Grundprobleme der deutschen Geschichte im Spätmittelalter (Darmstadt, 1992).Google Scholar

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19. Ibid., 47.

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21. Kohler, xi. The volume is dedicated to Heinrich Lutz.

22. Ibid., 1.

23. Ibid., 2.

24. Which Kohler uncritically accepts, much as Hermann Wiesflecker did with Maximilian, as a medieval survival.

25. Duchhardt, 32.

26. Ibid., 64.

27. Schmidt, xi.

28. Ibid.

29. And as an orientation to Schindling, Anton and Ziegler, Walter, eds., Die Territorien des Reichs im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung: Land und Konfession 1500–1650, 5 vols.,Google ScholarKatholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung, vols. 49–53 (Münster, 1989–1993).Google Scholar

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33. This concept underlies much of the American work on German rural history, notably by David Sabean, Thomas Robisheaux, Hermann Rebel, Marc Forster, and John Theibault. It is gradually penetrating the German-language writing on rural history. See my comments on Werner Trossbach’s Bauern 1648–1806, in the first part of this review essay.

34. Schindling, 2.

35. Ibid., 48.

36. Ibid., 49.

37. Ibid., 99.

38. Ibid., 101.

39. It may therefore well be that this and certain other characteristics—the “new monarchies,” overseas empire—should be demoted from marks of European history to marks of Western European history. See my reflections on this subject in my study, “The Rise of Merchant Empires, 1400–1700: A European Counterpoint,” in The Political Economy of Merchant Empires, 1450–1750, ed. Tracy, James D.Cambridge, 1991), 117–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar On the problems of periodization more generally, see “Introduction: Renaissance and Reformation, Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era,” in Handbook of European History, 1400–1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, ed. Brady, Thomas A. Jr, Oberman, Heiko A., and Tracy, James D., 2 vols. (Leiden, 1974–1975), 1:xiii–xxiv.Google Scholar

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